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Can We Escape Maine? Time to Sail South!! (Calico Skies Sailing, Ep 80)
We seem to make a habit of overstaying our season in each spot we travel to 🙃. Whether it is the sweltering heat of the Bahamas this past June (almost July) or the freezing cold air in Maine at the end of October, we just seem to stay too late LOL. Well...
Injury at Sea (Calico Skies Sailing, Ep. 79)
When it rains, it pours! This episode opens with us disconnecting our tow from S/V Delos and getting Calico Skies anchored under power from our dinghy. We being the process of flushing the transmission fluid several times after getting the dipstick caught ...
No wind, no transmission, no problem! S/V Delos to the rescue! (Calico Skies Sailing, Ep 78)
We are at the point in our season where we are starting to make our way back south and west after getting within ten miles of the Canadian border. Our first stop is Mud Hole. This sweet anchorage is only accessible at high tide. This entrance to this harbo...
Off the Beaten Path, Sailing Down East Maine in the Fall (Calico Skies Sailing, Ep 77)
In this episode we decide to throw caution to the wind and sail to the very north eastern tip of Maine, right at the Canadian border. Its late September and we should be heading south but adventure calls! Exploring Cross Island is a real treat. The islan...
Maine or the Caribbean? (Calico Skies Sailing, Ep 76)
With our summer boat projects complete it's time to get down to the business of exploring Maine. Our first stop is a sweet anchorage bordering Acadia National Park where we reunite with several members of TTYC, our quarantine crew from the Bahamas (Ada, Av...
1100w of solar on a 36 foot sailboat, yes please! (Calico Skies Sailing, Ep 75)
In this episode we complete a major upgrade to to our solar generating capacity. We add an additional 600w of solar to our existing 510w. 1110w of solar on a 36 foot monohull sailboat must be some sort of record lol! Earlier this summer we upgraded to 600 ...
Delos & Calico Livin’ large off the Sea on our Private Island (Calico Skies Sailing, Ep 73)
If you had to spend 14 days "self isolating" upon entering the state of Maine, can you picture a better way to spend it than on a private island?!?! We got really lucky this past August as our friends on S/V Delos were offered the use of an island off the ...
Sailing in Maine, holy lobster pots!!! (Calico Skies Sailing, Ep 72)
In this episode we explore the Isle of Shoals, a beautiful island located right on the border of New Hampshire and Maine. The next day we continue our journey further North, rising at 4:30 am in anticipation of a long passage. The early beginnings of our ...
Land Ho! Our Beautiful Sail to Maine (Calico Skies Sailing, Ep 71)
After almost a month of boat work, the mast has been re-stepped and we’re finally headed back to cruising life. We head out with the wind, as we make our way towards Maine, our ultimate destination. In total about 500 nautical miles away, we tackle the p...
We Finally Got the Mast Up! (Calico Skies Sailing, Ep 70)
It's a big day...after nearly a month of being without a mast it is being re-stepped! We took it down for inspection after the rig failed off Cape Hatteras and while it was down we added an exit point for a second spinnaker halyard and replaced/upgraded o...
Christmas Came Early! Lithium Batteries from Delos (Calico Skies Sailing, Ep.69)
In this episode Bill is working on some rig upgrades since the mast is down - It had to be removed because a rod head popped when he was solo sailing Calico Skies offshore the east coast of the US, near Beaufort North Carolina. He begins by removing all te...
Ditching Delos: My Hubby is Back! (Calico Skies Sailing, Ep.68)
When the rod head on our forward lower shroud broke on the fifth day of Bill's solo passage headed North from the Bahamas he had to divert course near Beaufort, North Carolina and head inshore. Grace is crewing on our friends boat s/v Delos and we’re ahe...
Rigging Failure Sailing Solo While My Wife is Crewing on Delos! (Calico Skies Sailing, Ep. 67)
It’s day four of our offshore passage north from the Bahamas headed up along the east coast of the US. Bill is about 30 miles offshore from North Carolina when the rod head on the forward lower shroud exploded. He’s sailing Calico Skies solo and Grace ...
A Tale of Two Passages….Ripped Sails on Delos and Rig Failure on Calico Skies (Ep. 66)
This episode opens on night two of our passage from the northern part of the Bahamas to the east coast of the US. For this passage, Grace has joined our friends on Delos as crew and Bill has set sail solo. Together, we’re buddy boating on a northward tra...
I’m Leaving My Husband……to Join Delos, (Calico Skies Sailing, Ep. 65)
Well this is a first for us, Calico Skies is setting out to sea for an eight hundred mile passage without Grace onboard. What?! Ya! In this episode, Grace joins the S/V Delos crew to help sail her back to the US and play with little Miss Nugget. Always up...
Ep. 3: STORM SAIL CONDITIONS when we pick up our boat and bring it home!
We finally buy our boat, move aboard and sail away! We spill some champagne, and sail through some storm conditions in 30kts and 5-6 foot waves to move SV Northern Reach down one of Canada’s Great Lakes. It's amateur hour when we fill our boat with smok...
Lend Me Some Water I Am Your Neighbor (Calico Skies Sailing, Ep. 64)
We’re headed North and it’s day two of our passage from Flamingo Cay at the top of the Ragged Island chain to the Berry Islands, located at the northern end of the Bahamas. It's mid June and this is a hot, light air trip. Along the way we encounter a U...
Navigating the Tongue of the Ocean (Calico Skies Sailing, Ep. 63)
Well, it had to come eventually: The end of an era. We stayed as long as we possibly could, but with hurricane season quickly approaching we have no choice but to say our sad, final goodbyes to the Covid crew and leave the Bahamas, pointing the bow North. ...
Sailing North: It’s All the RAGE, (Calico Skies Sailing, Ep. 62)
This episode marks the beginning of a new chapter, as the Covid Crew begins to disband and go separate ways. We experience some fantastic sailing as we start our long trek north towards the States. Being a particularly windy year we almost always had enoug...
Our Covid Experience, like something out of Gilligan’s Island! (Calico Skies Sailing, Ep. 60)
Our experience during covid sounds like something out of Gilligan's Island; twelve strangers find themselves isolated on a deserted tropical island for months on end learning to survive and forging life long friendships in the process. Before the pandemic...
The Founding of the Two Titty Yacht Club (Calico Skies Sailing, Ep. 59)
This episode depicts the birth of the TTYC or Two Titty Yacht Club, a sweet little spot on the beach at Double Breasted Cay that we end up spending a LOT of time at - Beginning in the early days of the Pandemic right on through the end of our Bahamas seas...
How to Get Groceries on a Deserted Island during a Pandemic (Calico Skies Sailing, Ep. 58)
In this episode we work out one of the more pressing issues we faced while we were 'stuck' in the Ragged Islands during the pandemic late Spring - How to get food. At the time, the Bahamas had banned inter-island travel which meant that we either had to he...
With a Little Help from My Friends (Calico Skies Sailing, Ep. 56)
Behind the scenes of cruising life there is a huge heaping pile of kind-hearted souls providing support and helping us through rough patches. These people are always ready to lend a hand with a project or boat fix, give advice, share knowledge and resource...
2020 GBCA Rum Race #6 – TEXAS SAILBOAT RACING
Highlights and clips from the Hunter 340 "Sunspot Baby" and the Hunter 40 "Hobgoblin" and their crews racing in the GBCA Cruzan Rum Race #6 on Galveston Bay on Saturday, August 15th, 2020. About 40 boats raced in ideal sailing conditions on a beautiful Tex...
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